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package com.googlecode.jweb1t;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * Interface for any classes providing frequency counts.
 */
public interface Searcher
{
	long getFrequency(String aPhrase)
		throws IOException;

	long getNrOfNgrams(int aNGramSize);

	long getNrOfDistinctNgrams(int aNGramSize);
}